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Description: | Word processed ts memoir (132pp) recording his enlistment and training with the 16th Battalion London Regiment (Queen's Westminster Rifles), February 1917 - February 1918, and embarkation and active service with the 13th Battalion London Regiment (Kensingtons) (168th Brigade, 56th Division) on the Western Front, March 1918 - October 1919, describing his arrival in France, first impressions of Le Havre, arrival at the front line (March 1918) and first experiences of trench warfare, his low opinion of Australian troops, trench conditions, his signalling duties, his unit's retreat following the opening of the German spring offensive (21 March 1918), Army bureaucracy, involvement in a trench raid, his narrow avoidance of a court martial for punching a superior, going 'over the top' in an infantry attack (23 August 1918), his gas poisoning and subsequent medical treatment, his duties as a waiter in the Sergeants Mess of the 56th Divisional Rest Camp (October - November 1918), the announcement of the Armistice, the billets in which he stayed during the Allied advance into Germany, his temporary posting as a clerk to the office of the Assistant Director of Supplies and Transport (ADS&T), and a visit to Paris on leave before his demobilisation.
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Catalogue date 2006-02-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Holmes, T H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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